The Last Sunday after The Epiphany - 2 March, 2014

• Organ Prelude on “Praise, my soul” – Eugene Hill 
• Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling 
• Opening Hymn 381 “Praise, my soul, the King of Heaven” (Praise my soul) 
• Psalm 2 
• Gospel Alleluia

Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: This is my Son, my Chosen: listen to him!
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

• Offertory Hymn 374 “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus” (Hyfrydol) 
• Anthem: Jubilate Deo in C – Benjamin Britten 

O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands serve the Lord with gladness, and come before his presence with a song. Be ye sure that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. O go your way into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him, and speak good of his Name. For the Lord is gracious, his mercy is everlasting and his truth endureth from generation to generation.

• Communion Hymn 84 “Lord, enthroned in heavenly splendour” (St. Osmond) 
• Concluding Hymn 344 “From all that dwell below the skies” (Lasst uns erfreuen) 
• Organ: Paean – Kenneth Leighton 

Music Notes

As befitting the Sunday before Lent, all of today’s music is joyous. Usually, the organ prelude is relatively quiet and contemplative, helping you to prepare for worship (we hope!); unusually, today it’s an uplifting piece (based on our opening hymn) by the Canadian Eugene Hill, born in Toronto in 1909. Hill was an organ student of the legendary Dr. Charles Peaker (long-time organist of St. Paul’s, Bloor St.) and later of the even more legendary G.D. Cunningham in England. He spent most of his career teaching in the USA where he died in 1976. 

Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was a British composer and pianist. His compositions include church and choral music, pieces for piano, organ, cello, oboe and other instruments, chamber music, concertos, symphonies, and an opera. He had various University appointments, most notably as Reid Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. “Paean” is a celebratory piece, in which many familiar Leighton traits are used - striding rhythms, dissonant chords, melody, et al. Leighton’s work always maintained the importance of melody at the forefront. This is a longer-than-normal postlude, but you’re encouraged to remain seated and have a listen with ears open to something different. 

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) was a unique force in British music. Of the brilliant composers among his contemporaries, none wrote such a wide variety of music across such a broad spectrum of genres and for such a range of ages and abilities. A sizeable proportion of his choral music is easily within the reach of a good ordinary choir, another part is well within the grasp of a reasonable church choir, and there is, of course, all the music he wrote specifically for children. The exuberant Jubilate in C was composed in 1961 for St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle at the request of the Duke of Edinburgh. 

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Epiphany 7 - February 23 2014

• Organ Prelude  - Liturgical Prelude No. 2 - George Oldroyd (1887-1956)(played by Peter Dunphy)
• Opening Hymn 7 “New every morning is the love” (Melcombe)
• Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling
• Psalm 119: 33-40
• Gospel Alleluia

Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: In those who obey the word of Christ:
the love of God has reached perfection.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

• Anthem: “My eyes for beauty pine” – Herbert Howells

  My eyes for beauty pine, My soul for Goddes grace :
  No other care nor hope is mine, To heaven I turn my face.
  One splendour thence is shed From all the stars above :
  'Tis named when God's name is said, 'Tis Love, 'tis heavenly Love.
  And every gentle heart, That burns with true desire,
  Is lit from eyes that mirror part Of that celestial fire.

• Communion Hymn 77 “The Son of God proclaim” (Sunderland)
• Concluding Hymn 330 “O praise ye the Lord” (Laudate dominum)
• Organ: Liturgical Prelude No. 3 - George Oldroyd (1887-1956)

Music Notes

George Oldroyd (1887–1956) was an English organist and composer of Anglican church music. He was organist of St. Alban's Church, Holborn from 1919 to 1920, and then of St. Michael's Church, Croydon from 1920 until his death in 1956. Both are churches firmly rooted within the Anglo-Catholic tradition. During the 1930s the first British organ works appeared that quoted plainsong or plainsong-like themes. Among the more memorable are the Three Liturgical Preludes (1938) by George Oldroyd. This set of preludes is dedicated to the plainsong enthusiast Dykes Bower, organist of St. Paul’s Cathedral, and inspired by the vast reverberant qualities of St. Paul’s and Dykes Bower’s soft, deliberate improvisations, pervaded with rubato. They appear to be unique in British organ music of the period with respect to combining plainchant and a metrically loose style.

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Epiphany 6 - February 16 2014

• Organ:  “Benedictus” – Alec Rowley 
• Service Music: John Merbecke (page 9 of the Service Music booklet) 
• Opening Hymn 619 “Fairest Lord Jesus” (Crusaders’ Hymn) 
• Psalm 119: 1-8 
• Gospel Alleluia

Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: You are the light of the world: A city set upon a hill cannot be hid.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

• Offertory Hymn Hymn 10 “We, the Lord’s People” (Christe sanctorum) 
• Communion Hymn 256 “Yours the hand that made creation” (Quem pastores) 
• Concluding Hymn 306 “O for a thousand tongues” (Richmond) 
• Organ: “Sabbath Joy” – Norman Warren 

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Epiphany 5 - February 9, 2014

• Organ:  “How fair and how pleasant” – Marcel Dupré 
• Opening Hymn 337 “God your glorious presence” (Arnsberg) 
• Service Music: Holy Trinity Service – Christopher Tambling (page 1 of Service Music booklet) 
• Psalm 112: 1-10 
• Gospel Alleluia

Choir: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.
Cantor: Jesus says I am the light of the world:
whoever follows me will have the light of life.
All: Alleluia. Alleluia. Alleluia.

• Offertory Hymn 364 “Splendour and honour” (Iste confessor)
• Communion Hymn 77 “Lamp of our feet, whereby we trace” (Grafenburg)
• Communion Motet: If ye love me – Thomas Tallis

If ye love me,
keep my commandments,
and I will pray the Father,
and he shall give you another comforter,
that he may bide with you forever,
e'en the spirit of truth.

• Concluding Hymn 503 “Fight the good fight” (Pentecost)
• Organ: “Paean-Fanfare” – Oliphant Chuckerbutty

MUSIC NOTES

Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) was one of the giants of the organ world in the 20th century. Famed as a virtuosic performer of the standard repertoire, he was as widely admired for his brilliant improvisations. Dupré’s compositions number in the dozens (many of them beginning life as improvisations, then written down later). Today’s organ prelude is taken from a set of pieces based on antiphons for the Magnificat (“How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights” – from Song of Solomon).

Soorjo Alexander William Langobard Oliphant Chuckerbutty (1884–1960) (aka Wilson Oliphant) was an English composer and an organist of Anglo-Indian descent who played in both cinemas and churches. He was a grandson of Surgeon-major Goodeve Chuckerbutty and a nephew by marriage of Sir Ganendra Roy, Director of Posts and Telegraphs in India; his maternal grandfather was journalist William Oliphant. Little known as a composer (except for his piece

"Pæan" which has entered the standard repertoire), Chuckerbutty wrote mainly for organ. He began playing the piano at six, and was composing by age 14. His careers in church and cinema occurred simultaneously. Quentin MacLean, (the great Canadian theatre organist and organist at Holy Rosary Church on St. Clair West) called him "the only organist I know who combines whole-time cinema work with whole-time church work and makes a job of both”.

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